El cadete Vargas Llosa

Cuando la escritora y traductora Dolores Payás visitó por primera vez a Patrick Leigh Fermor en su paraíso griego, poco podía imaginar que aquella visita iba a cambiar el transcurso de su vida. Por aquel entonces, el legendario escritor y aventurero era un anciano frágil. Apenas veía, tenía grandes dificultades para oír. Aun así, la acogió con los brazos abiertos y una generosidad extraordinaria. Fue un flechazo instantáneo, mutuo. Surgió la amistad, a aquel primer encuentro se siguieron otros muchos. Horas de charla, risas y afecto, complicidades literarias y, muy en especial,...

In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humour, Donna Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her than been planned.

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She spoke of God and miracles. In the 50 years of her ministry she possibly testified personally to 100,000,000 people about the love and the power of God. Wherever she went, people who thought that miracles were not possible, believed because of her. Before she died, she asked only for Jaime Buckingham to write her biography. Here we have the story, not of a holy person, but of a human -marriage, divorce, treason in her administrative work- with dark events surrounding her death. It is the story of Kathryn Kyhlman that no one knows, but that she wanted to reveal. The story of a red headed...